A Rhetorical Grammar Analysis of Two Ways of Seeing a River

"Two Ways of Seeing a River",an excerpt from Life on the Mississippi,written by Mark Twain and published in1883,is a short but effective comparison essay in which Twain contrasts his then-and-now views of the Mississippi River.The rhetorical strategies and devices that are used by Twain to effectively communicate his messages to readers will be analyzed from the sentential level:vocabulary and phrases,and the figure of speech.